Interesting History of the Mid-Terms Since 1862

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What happened Tuesday night was not "historic" as much as CNN/MSNOW want you to believe; it was expected.

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If you consider republicans losing every statewide race “expected” and not “historic” you need go back tot he drawing board.

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I cannot believe Im posting something in here but:

This midterm crap is a cycle.

On any given day, you have folks that will side with one team or another no matter what. Its the ones in the middle that decide what happens, if they are inspired to vote.

Half of those in the middle are looking up at the other half. A majority of those looking up won't be happy with whoever is in control. A lot of folks on the upper half want it better, too. They figure its not great now, why not try something else.

Because of this, it makes sense for midterms to go against a President, especially one that has both houses.

If the President and both houses are on the same side, and people don't feel like things are great, they will want change because the ones in control for the last couple years have not made their life better despite being able to pass pretty much whatever they want and likely running on promises of prosperity that ain't happened.

Another thing is when a President has both houses, amongst other things, they pass shite that would never pass unless they had total control. Those things make the hard liners happy, but tend to be things not all that relevant to folks that are in the middle.

I believe thats a simple way to explain how you get a tendency for mid-terms to go against the team that is winning. The election mantras of each are similar based on who is in power prior to mid-terms:

The team in power at mid-terms tries to claim things are going great, middle voters don't agree.

The team in power tries to scare the middle voters with boogie men, middle voters don't care about culture crap over how shite is going in their actual home.

If its clearly not going well, the team in power tries to blame the other team and to "give them more time." Middle voters say frick that. You had tcouple years where you controlled everything and things are shite while you focused on bullshite culture wars crap over making sure my house isnt in bad shape.

The newly elected winning team campaigns on things like, the party in power "abondoned you and are trying to get you to focus on other bullshite when its crappy at your house" or "lets try to go purple and work together and get us out of these rough times." That resonates because middle folks feel like things suck now and they are not hard liners so they are willing to try something else.

Once the new team is in power, things get difficut for them. While the middle folks that are willing to vote for either team are the ones that truly control who wins, they dont vote unless inspired. Hard liners on both sides vote, no matter what. The new team in power has to pander to the hard liners on their team to get their votes because hard liners vote. Candidates line to up claim to be more RED or BLUE than the other fake RED or BLUE candidate. shite sways too far to one side or the other and the middle get pissed off enough to go vote. The middle folks dont vote as much because their identity is not based on politics.

The cycle repeats unless most folks think things are going great.

Presidents gain at midterms if most folks think that things are going great. Thats not very often.

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You are wrong and so is everyone else who voted with that opinion influencing your justification. The electorate has never been this liberal, non white, and uneducated. The path forward will close when the SC flips in 2-4 years. The Constitution will cease to exist when two more justices join the current liberals. The American public just shite the bed

That's a pretty accurate assesment.

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My first political talk post

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Well done for a 1st post.

One key difference now is how radical the new party that seized control is compared to any point in US history. These people hate America and want to blow the traditions and history away. They don't even hide it.

Now, with a big majority in both chambers, they will be arrogant and push the most radical policies you could imagine.

Victor Davis Hanson had a very good synopsis and dispelled a lot of the “the sky is falling” scenarios… yet he did state that the Conservatives need to:

- Work on messaging and how good the economy REALLY is
- End the war very soon (we hesitated too often early on, and allowed Iran leaders to hang around, when we should’ve overtaken KARG Island and allowed the Mossad to assinate as many top Iranian leaders as possible)
- create a better public presentation on immigration enforcement

Victor Davis Hanson is right.

Also, Vance’s job as VP is to defend the President from personal attacks.

When MTG called Trump a pedophile and Tucker called him satanic and a crazy nuclear bomber, Vance stayed silent. He didn’t push back. He didn’t protect the team… a team that was already being thwarted by deep state Thune & Co.

He weakened the group right before the elections. Silence isn’t leadership.

Therefore, VDH sees that if Rubio steps down, as is suspected, he will form a ticket of Rubio/DiSantis for 2028